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The Track of the Jew through the Ages

cannon-shot, but the first city that showed some resistance,
Thionville, already seemed invincible. In Paris, it was thought that
all was lost, but something else happened. For, in spite ofthe visible
superiority of the German troops at Valmy, the Duke of Brunswick
contravened the orders of the king of Prussia, which would have
caused a decisive defeat to the revolutionary army, and let the
Prussian troops march away as the French were staggering.
Later, Napoleon in St. Helena let it be understood clearly
as his opinion that here a Masonic treason was at play. And even if
we do not wish to suppose any treason, yet we must suppose an
inner unwillingness to fight against armies which seemed to be the
bearers of ideas that large parts of the Prussian officer corps
themselves paid tribute to.
The retreating German army was followed by the victorious
French, the German fortifications, defended for the most part by
Masonic officers, surrendered without resistance. The Illuminatus
from Mainz, Bohmer, 231 invited the French general Custine 232 to
lay siege even though the latter lacked almost everything necessary
for it.
Three days after the latter's request to surrender the
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fortification, the French marched in. In a similar way did
Frankfurt, Speier and Worms fall into the hands of Custine and in
this way were Brabant and Flanders also surrendered to Dumouriez,
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But precisely in this way did Pichegru "conquer" Holland, where
important points were handed to him through the conspiracies of
many commercial leaders at whose head stood the Jew Sportas who
was "zealous" about the revolution. Of course the conspiracy was

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[Georg Wilhelm Bohmer (1761-1839) was a theologian who was a staunch
supporter of the French Revolution and helped to establish, along with French
Revolutionary troops, the short-lived Mainz Republic of 1793.]
232
[Adam Philippe, Count of Custine (1740-1793) was a general of the
Revolutionary Army and took Speier, Worms, Frankfurt and Mainz in September-
October 1792.]
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Custine, Memoires.
234
[Jean-Charles Pichegru (1761-1804) was a French general who led the
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Revolutionary Army in the Netherlands, Austria and Germany, but in
resigned from the Directory and joined the French Royalists.]
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